Perhaps it was his time, and perhaps God was giving Bishop O'Brien an opportunity to exercise good judgement. The Bishop failed once again. He should have been removed over the pedophile issue, but once again he used bad judgement. Had he pulled over, had he called the police, had he given last rites to the poor man, who knows. We don't even know if the man was killed instantly, although being hit by a second car makes that kind of a moot question. Who was in the second car?
Perhaps it was his time, and perhaps God was giving Bishop O'Brien an opportunity to exercise good judgement. The Bishop failed once again. He should have been removed over the pedophile issue, but once again he used bad judgement. Had he pulled over, had he called the police, had he given last rites to the poor man, who knows. We don't even know if the man was killed instantly, although being hit by a second car makes that kind of a moot question. Who was in the second car?
It's just a horrible tragedy. It could be symbolic of the souls who are dying through their carelessness.
I have thought about this for a long time, and what I came up with is this: God doesn't look at death the way we do. To us, every death is a loss. To God, it's a doorway. To the deceased, unless he died in mortal sin, it's also a doorway to a new life. I'm not saying that "God killed the pedestrian," but I am saying that he didn't HAVE to die. If the bishop had been behaving himself, the accident (?) wouldn't have happened, more than likely. The man was jaywalking, but if it hadn't been the bishop, it could very well have been somebody else. I've been on those Phoenix freeways. They are NOT for jaywalking. He didn't have to do that, either.
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